Wreckage

Fire blackened wreckage, a gasoline tank, pieces of rubberized cloth, is all that has appeared of the Dixmude (TIME, Jan. 7) on the surface of the water. Bitter controversy as to the cause of the tragedy has so far produced no enlightening facts. American and British airship projects are in no wise to be altered--experts in both countries claim that structural weakness of the Dixmude, hastily built in wartime, is to blame, that better ships are now being built. The French, on the other hand, are likely to abandon all their work in such craft, concentrat- ing on supremacy in airplanes.

Impregnable England

England's splendid isolation is gone. The sea and the British fleet cannot prevent hostile attacks from the air. To meet this situation, so alarming to a country which has not suffered an invasion for nearly 900 years, the Air Ministry has formulated defensive plans far exceeding in scope anything attempted during the War. Huge airdromes, numbers of air squadrons will line the entire coast. London will be protected by a complete loop of such defenses, and the industrial districts will be similarly protected. These plans call for 52 well equipped squadrons within four years. If a Labor Ministry does not call a halt, England will soon be at least on a par with France in air power.